Friday, October 8, 2010

US taxpayers fund warlords pretending to guard our troops in Afghanistan

"Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says.

The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because

The report demands "immediate and aggressive steps" to improve the vetting and oversight process.

  • Some 26,000 private security personnel, mostly Afghans, operate in Afghanistan.

Nine out of 10 of them work for the US government."...


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